Clothes-cabinet



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. CLOTHES CABINET. APPLICATION FILED JULY 25. I919.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

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JOHN B. LEMILY, or BROOKLYN, NEWYORK.

. CLOTHES-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 19 20.

Application filed. July 26, 1919. Serial No. 313,605.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that 1, JOHN B. LEMILY, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to cabinets and particularly to devices of this class designed for use as a receiver for soiled clothing, and the object of the invention is to provide a device of the class specified which will be neat in appearance and which may be placed in any room of a compartment or building and used as a support for other articles, if desired; a further object of the invention being to provide separate compartments in said cabinet adapted to receive different kinds or classes of soiled clothing; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class andfor the purpose specified which is simple in construction and operation and efficient in use.

The llli'GlltlOll is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure l is a front view of my improved cabinet with part of the construction broken away and in section;

Fig. 2 a central longitudinal section through the cabinet as shown in Fig. 1; and,

Fig. 3 a transverse section on the line 83 of Fig. 2.

In the practice of my invention, I provide a cabinet which is approximately rectangular in form and the vertical dimensions of which are preferably greater than that of the transverse dimensions thereof, and said cabinet consists of a bottom 5, side walls 6, a back wall 7, a front wall 8 and a top 9, said top and bottom and front, back and side walls being connected by nails, screws, gluing or in any other desired manner.

The front wall 8 is provided with a large elongated aperture 10 in which is mounted a door 11 hinged to one side wall as shown at 12 and locked in engagement with the other side wall by a spring lock or catch device 13. The top 9 of the cabinet extends forwardly to the point .14, and a Supplemental front wall- 15 is'secured to said top wall and extends upwardly and is closed at the top by a supplemental top 16, which forms a small compartment 17 between the top 9 and back wall 7 and the supplemental front wall and top 15 and 16, and a large compartment 18 is formed between the bottom 5, top 9 and the front, back and side walls 8, 7 and 6 of the cabinet.

Forwardly of the top 9 of the cabinet is a lift door 19 hinged to the supplemental front wall 15 as shown at 20, said door being provided with a finger piece 21, whereby the same may be raised and lowered. The supplemental front wall 15 is also provided with a lift door 22 hinged as shown at 23 and provided with a finger piece 2% whereby the same may be raised and lowered, and both of the doors l9 and 22 by reason of their construction and location are automatically closed by gravity.

The side walls 6 of the cabinet extend above the top 9 of the cabinet and are cut out as shown at 25 to form a finish for said walls, while a supplemental back wall 26 is secured to the supplemental top 16, said supplemental back wall being cut-out" as shown at 27 to ornament the same or to give graceful lines to the cabinet.

Secured to the inner faces of the side walls 6 adjacent to the door 11 are vertical verse strips 32 adjacent to the top and bottom thereof, as clearly shown in F 1g. 2.

The transverse strips 32 extend at the opposite sides thereof as shown at 33 and are cutout as shown at 31- in Fig. l to form projecting tongues 35 shown in Fig. 3, which are adapted to operate in the L-shaped cutout portions 29 in the strips 28 to hold the supplemental door 30 in position.

' The supplemental door 30 serves to prevent the soiled clothes or other articles in the compartment 8 from falling out when the door 11 is opened, but said supplemental door may be removed by first raising the same to disengage the projections 35 from the extensions 36 of the L-shaped cut-out portions, after which said supplemental door may be moved outwardly through the ex;

tensions 37 and the soiled clothes or other articles may be removed from the compartment 18. I also preferably employ a transverse strip 38 which is secured to the inner face of the front wall 8 adjacent to the lift door 19 which prevents the clothes or other articlespassed down into the compartment 18 through the door opening controlled by the door 19 from coming in contact or being caught on the top of the supplemental front door 11, or the strips 28.

In the use of the device with the parts in the position shown in the drawing, any soiled clothes or other articles may be placed in the compartment 18 by raising the lift door 19 and passing the same downwardly through the door opening which is closed by said door, and other articles to be laundried, such as collars, cuffs and the like may be placed in the compartment 17 through the door opening controlled by the lift door 522, the object being to keep the starched or other laundry separated from the general wash, or said laundry that is custom arily set away to be laundried, while the general wash is placed in the compartment 18 and removed therefrom in the manner hercinbefore set out.

It will be understood that while I have shown and described certain details of construction for carrying my invention into effeet, that I am not necessarily limited to these details, and changes therein and modifications thereof may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A cabinet of the class described comprising main and supplemental compartments, a large door forming a closure for the front of the main compartmentya lift door forming a closure for the top of the maincompartment, another lift door forming a closure for said supplemental compartment, and a supplemental door detachably mounted in the cabinet rearwardly of said first named door.

2. A cabinet of the class described, said cabinet being oblong and rectangular in form and composed of a top, bottom and front, and back and side walls, the front wall being provided with a swinging door, and a supplemental door detachably mount ed in the cabinet adjacent to said first named door and adapted to be detached from the cabinet. and passed. outwardly through the.

door opening controlled by said first named door.

8. A cabinet of the class described, said cabinet being oblong and rectangular in form and composed of top, bottom and front, and back and side walls forming a main compartment therein, the front wall of said cabinet being provided with a swinging door, a catch device for holding said door in a closed position, a supplemental openwork door detachably mounted in and between the side walls of the cabinet adjacent to said first named door, a lift door hinged to the top of the cabinet, a supplemental compartment mounted above the top of the main compartment, and a lift door hinged to the front wall of said supplemental compartment.

4. A cabinet of the class described which is oblong and rectangular and composed of top, bottom and front, and back and side walls, a hinged door mounted in the front wall, strips secured to the inner faces of the side walls adjacent to the front wall, said strips being provided with a plurality of L- shaped cut-out portions, a supplemental openwork door mounted within said first named door and provided with a plurality of laterally directed extensions adapted to cooperate with the L-shaped cut-out portions in said strips for detachably connecting said supple-mental door with said cabinet.

5. A cabinet of the class described which is oblong and rectangular and composed of top, bottom and front, and back and side walls, a hinged door mounted in the front wall, strips secured to the inner faces of the side walls adjacent to the front wall, said strips being provided with a plurality of L- shaped cutout portions, a supplemental openwork door mounted within said first named door and provided with a plurality of laterally directed extensions adapted to cooperate with the- L-shaped cut-out portions in said strips for detachably connecting said supplemental door with said cabinet, the top of the cabinet being provided with a door opening, a lift door for controlling said openingand a strip secured to the inner face of the front wall adjacent to the door opening in the top wall.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as. my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 25th day of July, 1919.

JOHN B. LEMILY.

' Witnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, H. E. THOMPSON. 

